[Entomofungo-l] IMPORTANT about ARSEF culture collection (temporary shut-down of activity in Nov-Dec 2008)

[Richard A. Humber]

IMPORTANT NOTE:
 
The USDA-ARS Collection of
Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures (ARSEF)
MUST TEMPORARILY HALT
ALL RECEIPTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
while moving to new cryogenic facilities
 
REQUESTS FOR ISOLATES:
        ARSEF will defer processing of new requests after 20 October 2008
        but will try to fill earlier orders before the move begins on 3
November. 
        ARSEF may have to delay shipping larger or more complex requests
        until after this transition is complete.
 
DEPOSITIONS OF NEW ISOLATES IN ARSEF:
        Please defer new shipments to ARSEF until January 2009.
 
The moving process will start on 3 November and continue for 4-6 weeks. Many
tens of thousands of cryovials will be moved from several overcrowded
nitrogen dewars to a different space with a much larger, more cryogenically
efficient dewar while simultaneously updating our database to reflect the
new locations of all cryovials.
 
Please be patient if we are slow or unable to respond to your messages
during this period. Your patronage of the ARSEF collection is vitally
important to us, and we hope to be able to provide a new level of service
once this transition is complete.
 
ARSEF will resume shipping and receiving fungi as soon as possible but this
suspension of routine collection activities may extend into our usual
year-end Œbreak¹: As a matter of policy, we rarely ship isolates during late
December, a widely observed holiday period, when the weather,
postal/shipping conditions, and a requesting laboratory¹s ability to receive
or to process isolates remain unpredictable. Full normal operations of the
ARSEF collection may not resume until Monday, 5 January 2009.
 
Please check the ARSEF website, http://arsef.fpsnl.cornell.edu, from
mid-November for updates about our progress and anticipated resumption of
services. ARSEF will also notify recent customers about when we will resume
normal operations both by email and notices on the websites of the Society
for Invertebrate Pathology and Mycological Society of America.
 
Richard A. Humber
Insect Mycologist and Curator, ARSEF
Phone: 607-255-1276
Email: Richard.Humber em ars.usda.gov
http://arsef.fpsnl.cornell.edu

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